Why sad? cause it's hypercommercial?If that's the reason i can surely relate yet many sounds say it's all about opening audiences eyes to the message of the roots & culture. But alot of those sounds only play for crowds who already know that message. This is a place where people who don't know about it might pick up something. To you it might seem like Shaka compromises, to me it seems like he delivers his message wherever, whenever, for the masses to hear... Ofcourse it's incredible commercial. But if there wasn't any roots or dub sound in there, some would complain that there is no platform for roots on such events...

job done, thats it john. big up shaka for doing this. i personnaly dont rellay care if its hyper-commercial or not. question is did it raise more interest for redbull or the words of jahovia? And yesterday, the message was clear, one more time (delivered through rent man, sinners repent, also help them jah, god is a man, kunte kinte, warrior style, holy one, chant, rush out, jahovia, the vibe, etc..)

John Eden wrote:lots of comments from young people on twitter about how great Shaka is. Job done, I reckon.

I caught some of it and reckon it was pretty good. Odd vibes visually, but a great soundtrack to putting the shopping away.

+1 John & Carassius. I agree. I think there are a lot of young people in Britain who are actually ready for the fullness and integrity of reggae music right now. They just need to hear it delivered straight from the heart and Shaka is, yet again, the one to bridge the generations. I don't see why he shouldn't do this kind of weird gig. I am sure it will have been a memorable kind of 21st century gig for him, certainly a lot easier than playing at loads of festivals.

Dani Dub Dub - 'fullness and integrity'? Maybe in the tunes, and maybe its just me being me, but theres not much integrity in the London scene I play gigs and people seem to get bored, or simply not support. I cant understand it, I try my best to be cool to people, and be nice, and represent solid tuff tunes when I play, but I just continually get vexed over the treatment I receive from venues, promoters and even certain heads in the scene, without naming names you know who you are - wheres the love? And what have I done to you to annoy you? I know I'm not the most socialable person but I'm proper depressed over the scene in London and politics and b u ll s h it I seem to encounter in certain dances and to be honest I'm over it.

I cant wait to finish my little mini sound so I can just bypass all this bollocks and just wheel it out and play in parks, house parties and skateparks without all the politik madness.

Forward to all the true rootsmen and women out there you know who you are and all the snakes are gonna fade away as Junior sung once.

And to the BAF mods, I stopped using the name Baba Jonah a few years ago, if you see this could you update my username to Jah Echo? Bless.

Sorry for the thread hi jack but I dont want to start a thread on this, I think this Shaka / Red Bull link up is an appropriate thread for this sort of talk, due to the controversy some people associate with, what was it? yeah, 'hypercommercialism'.

Baba Jonah wrote:Dani Dub Dub - 'fullness and integrity'? Maybe in the tunes, and maybe its just me being me, but theres not much integrity in the London scene I play gigs and people seem to get bored, or simply not support. I cant understand it, I try my best to be cool to people, and be nice, and represent solid tuff tunes when I play, but I just continually get vexed over the treatment I receive from venues, promoters and even certain heads in the scene, without naming names you know who you are - wheres the love? And what have I done to you to annoy you? I know I'm not the most socialable person but I'm proper depressed over the scene in London and politics and b u ll s h it I seem to encounter in certain dances and to be honest I'm over it.

I cant wait to finish my little mini sound so I can just bypass all this bollocks and just wheel it out and play in parks, house parties and skateparks without all the politik madness.

Forward to all the true rootsmen and women out there you know who you are and all the snakes are gonna fade away as Junior sung once.

I actually agree with this.... strange strange cats in the scene..... show no love and only dish out hate. Tired of these bad vibes within the scene. ... big up shaka for promoting the ting. He has flown the flag for rootsand done the scene proud. Breakong barriers even now. Gwaan shaka.